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Cozzens and others have argued that the Church should consider making celibacy a voluntary discipline for priests. Because it is a rule and not an unchangeable dogma, the celibacy requirement could be altered or rescinded by the Vatican if it chose to do so. Earlier this year, advocates of celibacy reform got a surprising boost from then-outgoing Cardinal Edward Egan of New York, who told a Catholic radio host that the celibacy question was "a perfectly legitimate discussion." He suggested that celibacy might not be a reasonable expectation in every locale. "I am not so sure it wouldn...
...first Shi'ite martyr was Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson. He believed it was better to die fighting injustice than to live with injustice under what he believed was illegitimate rule...
...like evolution governed by an appeals committee: winning races has long relied on engineering innovations that give a race car that extra microsecond advantage, while the teams left in the dust cry foul and demand that the sport's governing body, the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), rule those innovations out. FIA supremo Max Mosley had hoped to tamp down what he calls the sport's "financial arms race" by imposing a $66 million annual spending cap on teams, but instead he appears to have provoked a walkout that could see some of the sport's major names, such...
...teams are having none of it. On June 18, the F1 Teams Association (FOTA) announced that eight of its biggest teams, including Ferrari, McLaren, Renault, Toyota, BMW Sauber and current competition leader Brawn GP, plan to set up a rival championship for the 2010 season. They say the rule changes proposed by Mosley would create an unsatisfying two-tier competition by setting different engineering rules for teams that accept the cap and those that don't, and that the spending cap would hinder innovation. A series of recent changes in the rules governing design have also annoyed the teams, which...
...campaign reflects widespread disillusionment with the nation's young democracy just nine years after Mexico ended seven decades of one-party rule. Like Eastern Europeans, Mexicans hoped that opening up their political system would bring them better-paid jobs and safer streets. Instead, they have seen a wave of kidnappings, daily shoot-outs among drug gunmen and crowds of jobless; this year some analysts predict that the economy will shrink by more than 8%, the worst drop since the Great Depression. (Read about why Mexico's tourist industry seems cursed...